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CANDOR (The Honest) : Faction Manifesto

The manifesto advocates for complete honesty and transparency within society. It argues that dishonesty leads to conflict as people's secrets collide and evil is allowed to persist hidden from view. The faction's vision is a world where people are honest with each other so that suspicion, conflict and fragility are replaced with transparency, strength and peace. Members will raise their children to always speak the truth and be honest even if it hurts feelings. In adulthood, members' lives will be fully unveiled to each other so they become inextricably connected through shared knowledge of each other's secrets.

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CANDOR (The Honest) : Faction Manifesto

The manifesto advocates for complete honesty and transparency within society. It argues that dishonesty leads to conflict as people's secrets collide and evil is allowed to persist hidden from view. The faction's vision is a world where people are honest with each other so that suspicion, conflict and fragility are replaced with transparency, strength and peace. Members will raise their children to always speak the truth and be honest even if it hurts feelings. In adulthood, members' lives will be fully unveiled to each other so they become inextricably connected through shared knowledge of each other's secrets.

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CANDOR (The Honest)


FACTION MANIFESTO

DISHONESTY IS RAMPANT.
DISHONESTY IS TEMPORARY.
DISHONESTY MAKES EVIL POSSIBLE.
As it stands now, lies pervade society, families, and even the
internal life of the individual. One group lies to another group,
parents lie to children, children lie to parents, friends lie to friends,
individuals lie to themselves. Dishonesty has become so integral to
the way we relate to one another that we rarely find ourselves in
authentic relationships with others. Out dark secrets remain our
own. Yet it is our dark secrets that cause conflict. When we are
dishonest with the people around us, we begin to hate ourselves for
lying; when we are dishonest with ourselves, we can never even
attempt to correct the flaws we find within us, the flaws we are so
desperate to hide from our loved ones, the flaws that make us lie.
What has become clear is that lies are just a temporary
solution to a permanent problem. Lying to spare a person’s
feelings, even when the truth would help them to improve, damages
them in the long run. Lying to protect yourself lasts for so long
before the truth emerges. Like a wild animal, the truth is too
powerful to remain caged. These are examples we can clearly see
in our own live, yet we fail to understand that they do not just apply
to the dynamic between ourselves and our neighbors, or ourselves
and our friends.
What is society but a web of individual-to-individual
relationships? And what is conflict except one person’s dark secret
crashing into another person’s dark secret? Dishonesty is a veil that
shields one person from another. Dishonesty allows evil to persist,
hidden from the eyes of those who would fight it.

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DISHONESTY LEADS TO SUSPICION.
SUSPICION LEADS TO CONFLICT.
HONESTY LEADS TO PEACE.
We have a vision of an honest world. In this world, parents
do not lie to their children, and children do not lie to their parents;
friends do not lie to one another; spouses do not lie to each other.
When we are asked our opinions we are free to give them without
having to consider any other responses. When we engage in
conversation with others, we do not have to evaluate their
intentions, because they are transparent. We have no suspicion, and
no one suspects us.
And most of all – yes, above all else – we are free to expose
our dark secrets because we know the dark secrets of our
neighbors, our friends, our spouses, our children, our parents, and
our enemies. We know that while we are flawed in a unique way,
we are not unique because we are flawed. There fore we can be
authentic. We have no suspicions. And we are at peace with those
around us.
TRUTH MAKES US TRANSPARENT.
TRUTH MAKES US STRONG.
TRUTH MAKES US INEXTRICABLE.
We will raise our children to tell the truth. We will do this by
encouraging them to speak their minds at every moment. For the
child, withholding words is the same as lying.
We will be honest with our children even at the expense of
their feelings. The only reason people cannot bear honesty now is
because they were not raised hearing the truth about themselves,
and they can’t stand to. If children are raised to hear both honest
praise and honest criticism, they will not be so fragile as to crumble
beneath the scrutiny of their peers. A life of truth makes us strong.

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Adulthood will be defined as a time at which each member of
society is capable of bearing ever other member’s dark secrets just
as every other member will bear theirs. Therefore each member
will be subjected to The Full Unveiling, in which every hidden part
of their life is laid bare before their fellow members’ lives. In this
way we become inextricable.
END OF MANIFESTO

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